I Confronted YouTubes 'Scary' New CEO

GUYS THE KEI TRUCK IS OLD AND SQUEEKS WHEN I SHIFT GEARS HOPEFULLY IT SOUNDS OKAY 🙇

Props to Neal for actually getting into your car! lmao

Sneaking in "Nfts usually end up being abused to scam people like Logan Paul did" to the YouTube CEO and immediately changing topic is a baller move. Ludwig impresses yet again.

Neal is such a pro at answering a question without actually answering it

This car has been on an adventure, imported, stolen, now transporting CEOs

Lud got to spend a day with yt ceo before his hour with shroud 💀

"Buddy its thursdays, I smoked weed and play valorant on thursdays" GOD DAMN DO I LOVE LUDWIG

Good interview. Since Neil seems to be making the rounds right now I'm hoping someone with an upcoming interview opportunity will see this comment and maybe ask my own question: Have you considered bringing back some form of the community video response feature? That is the feature that most made YouTube feel like a community 10+ years ago. Especially in the DIY space, to make a tutorial video and then have a column of video responses from people that tried it out was really special. Likewise I'd like to see a feature similar to TikTok's video comment replies, where clicking on a comment in mobile gives the option to record a short response with your phone camera. These responses should live in a separate place on your channel so as to not clutter the regular upload or shorts tab, and likewise not annoy subscribers with frivolous notifications.

Ludwig getting a huge ass smile when he found out that Neal watches his videos was so wholesome

Ludwig slowly going from CEO to CEO of YouTube. Soon it would be a YouTube CEO policy to be recognised by the Ludwig to cement their position.

Does anyone else notice how incredible the editing of this is? There are at least three different cameras inside the truck, and at least two cameras outside around the truck, but, still, the sound is perfectly in sync. There are even a few times the cab of the truck is shown from the front, and you can tell that the lips are still synced up with the vocal recording. I thought this was all amazing.

This interview taking place in transit, with daylight and outdoor scenery passing by is quite refreshing, both visually and likely for the participants in the interview getting some sunlight. Natural lighting of course looks great, but I think it also has the benefit of giving yall energy throughout the interview. Pro strats, just wanted to say.

Good to see small time CEOs interacting with BIG BOY YOUTUBE streamers like LUDWIG.

I really relate to what Ludwig says at 22:40 about shorts, you don't really get any satisfaction out of it in the long term. You may watch it equally long as normal video content, but you don't take anything away from it. It's just time lost and it makes me feel bad, yet it is so addictive

My biggest takeaway from this is kudos to both Lud and Neal for navigating this interview. It became pretty obvious early on that Neal has to bite his tongue often with a lot of Ludwigs questions, and he does a good job navigating those questions in a very political manner. Neal makes a nothing answer sound sincere. Ludwig also does a good job picking up on that and not pressing for a better answer since he knows Neal can't give it to him.

Fucking dead at the ending lmao. Wonderful interview

Neal giving Ludwig a YT apron/rolling pin for QT is such a business move.

I agree with the shorts. I could watch hours of videos on YouTube and feel content, but if I get sucked into a shorts hole I gotta put the phone down and walk away feeling unproductive

Amazing as always. As someone who has been a daily user of the site since 2005 I have seen youtube go through many changes. I remember when youtube had a dating site aspect. Biggest changes I miss though are the 5 star rating system, video replies, and messaging. But I think the weirdest part to me is not that long ago I could recognize every large channel with 1 million subscribers. Then Vine shutdown and things changed quickly. I come across channels with 10 million subs that I have never heard of and that just blows my mind. But the other big change is for over a decade and a half the people who made youtube were just the man. We had no faces to attach to them. This recent shift of having the CEOs come out and do events and podcasts has been huge and feels good. But it still makes me a little sad just as we finally got to know susan she left but Neal he seems pretty cool and I really hope he keeps making the site better. Changes I would want to see, go back to more relevant recommendations, when I search for a video stop giving completely off topic things. Some times I want to learn about something I know nothing about. When searching for "quantum computing" there is no reason I should be getting recommendations for the latest Yard video talking about aimen peeing on cats or something. Or get the latest mogul mail about some random stream drama. I would also love if youtube didn't slow down based on what browser I am using. Oh also please allow us to rewind/scrub through shorts on desktop.

This series is the absolute best of your content in my opinion. I feel like you do an incredibly job of humanizing high up figures. No matter how qualified someone is for a job, they're still just one person who has ideas and is trying to manage a huge company. It also gives a great update on what the platform is focused on the most. I don't think the platform will ever be perfect, but they should focus on not falling behind on issues that matter the most.